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I learned this after a couple of imploded HDD and assorted attached bad owies. Note for those who've not yet had this joy - projected HDD life is 3-5 years under normal use, some run shorter, some run longer.

If you want to be sure, back up to your local HDD, then burn a copy to something reasonably non-volatile like a CD.

It'll still be a little fiddly if your blog ever does go down, but I have every post I write set up to be automatically emailed to me as well. It gets sent as soon as you post it though, so any subsequent revisions won't make it to your inbox. Still better than losing everything though!

All better now - I found a helpful person at Dreamhost. He even did the work for me, restored the database, and got a new Wordpress install to synch with it.

I'd have posted about it on the blog, but since the rant turned out to be invalid, I didn't want to reference it and have a rant about Dreamhost on the 'net for posterity. Plus, I'm tired of the subject after restoring all that crap. Thanks for the well-wishes and ego-petting, tho.